Josh Lim

Biography

Josh Lim is currently a community manager at Happy Team Check, a Polish HR startup. He is also a longtime Wikipedia editor, having edited since April 2005, and is currently the President of Wikimedia Philippines, the Philippine local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Since 2011, he has taken interest in analyzing social relations on the Wikimedia projects (and, since then, with online communities and Internet research in general), and hopes that he can contribute something meaningful to the discipline somehow.

Open Source Bridge 2016

Sessions for this user

Running a tech non-profit, especially in open source, is a lot of work. So much work, in fact, that in my six years as part of Wikimedia Philippines, I will admit to one of my biggest secrets: I have run my organization into the ground. Luckily for us, however, we've been really fortunate to be able to rebuild the organization from the ground up. Here's some of the lessons we've learned over the course of that process, and how you can avoid making the mistakes we made as you either form or build your own organization.

Proposals for this user

In November 2015, Wikimedia communities across Asia and the world set off on what would become one of the biggest online Wikipedia edit-a-thons ever: the Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM). Managing such a huge project though, especially with people from all over the world participating, is a big challenge. This presentation looks at how we did it, what we're doing now, and how your collaboration, online project or community can benefit from our experiences.

Open Source Bridge 2015

Sessions for this user

What makes a successful project? It's not only a solid idea, firm execution and attention to the numbers. It's also successfully building working relationships between community members. This presentation will explore how one of Wikimedia Philippines' biggest projects was successful in large part to how the organization engaged its participants, and ultimately how they have come to be part of the wider Filipino Wikimedia community.